Key Terms

Question 1

Primary socialisation

Answer 1

the first stage in the process of individuals learning norms and values of their culture. This takes place during early years in the family

Question 2

Culture

Answer 2

a shared way of life including shared norms and values, language, belief and practices

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Identity

Answer 3

who a person is, how they see themselves and how others see them

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Social differentation

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Refers to the unequal division of society into a hierarchy with the most privileged at the top and the least favoured at the bottom
Social characteristics used to enhance the power of one group of another

Question 5

Power

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Ability of individuals or social groups to exert their own will over others and to ensure that decisions taken reflect their own interests
The ability to control the behaviour of others through persuasion or coercion

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Stratification

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A way of categorising differences between individuals and groups using social characteristics such as gender, income, age, ethnicity, sexuality, disability and so on

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Secondary socialisation

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the process by which people continue to learn norms and values of their culture throughout life via agencies of socialisation including the education system and the media

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Social control

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the ways in which societies try to ensure its members behave according to accepted and expected norms

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Sanctions

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a reward or punishment associated with a behaviour

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Economic

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A means of producing and distributing the physical and material needs and wants of a society including food, clothes, shelter, water, heating, jobs etc

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Family

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A means of reproducing and socialising the next generation within socially approves norms and relationships

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Government

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A means of making decisions and enforcing rules

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Culture

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A shared way of life

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What is a value

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The specifics tat each personal ideals are and some that a society adheres to, to make the world a nice place
The priorities that you put in place for your life to follow

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What is a norm

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The ideas that everyone appreciates and adheres to: not seen as abstract and followed in everyday life

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What is a role

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Expected by society to behave in a particular way- if not they receive some sort of punishment.
The unofficial jobs we take on to allow society to function in day to day life

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What is a role model

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Learnt by copying behaviour or imitating the attitudes of others, consciously or unconsciously
People we aspire to be like and those who we want to live up to as they hold similar ideologies that we want to achieve

Question 18

Social Control

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methods used to persuade or force individuals to conform to the dominant social norms and values to prevent deviance

Question 19

Deviance

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failure to conform to social norms

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Ascribed Status

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Given by birth

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Achieved Status

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Gained by an individuals own efforts or talents

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Closed System of stratification

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Little to no movement
Status ascribed

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Open System of Stratification

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Meritocratic

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Meritocratic

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fluidity and movement between social groups
status achieved

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Social mobility

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Movement in any society

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Social Policy

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Government puts policies in place to improve society in some way

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Sociological Theory

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Competing sociological ideas about how to understand and explain human behaviour in society

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Socialisation

Answer 28

Lifelong, two way process of learning norms and values of a culture or society, two stages